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ISBN10: 0262550253, ISBN13: 9780262550253, [publisher: Brookings Institution Press] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 'A Brookings Institution Press and MIT Press publicationHow do social structures and group behaviors arise from the interaction of individuals In this groundbreaking study, Joshua M. Epstein and Robert L. Axtell approach this age-old question with cutting-edge computer simulation techniques. Such fundamental collective behaviors as group formation, cultural transmission, combat, and trade are seen to ''emerge'' from the interaction of individual agents following simple local rules.In their computer model, Epstein and Axtell begin the development of a ''bottom up'' social science. Their program, named Sugarscape, simulates the behavior of artificial people (agents) located on a landscape of a generalized resource (sugar). Agents are born onto the Sugarscape with a vision, a metabolism, a speed, and other genetic attributes. Their movement is governed by a simple local rule: ''look around as far as you can; find the spot with the most sugar; go there and eat the sugar.'' Every time an agent moves, it burns sugar at an amount equal to its metabolic rate. Agents die if and when they burn up all their sugar. A remarkable range of social phenomena emerge. For example, when seasons are introduced, migration and hibernation can be observed. Agents are ...
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